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Setup tor proxy on Arch Linux

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Installation

1. Install tor

        $ sudo pacman -S tor
        $ ## nyx provides a terminal status monitor for bandwidth usage, connection details and more.
        $ sudo pacman -S nyx
        $ ## torsocks safely torify applications
        $ sudo pacman -S torsocks

2. Start the tor service

        $ sudo systemctl enable --now tor.service

3. By default, Tor runs on port 9050. Check it

        $ systemctl status tor.service
        $ ss -nlt

Test Tor Network Connection

1. Check your current public IP address

        $ wget -qO - https://api.ipify.org; echo

2. Torify the command through the torsocks

        $ torsocks wget -qO - https://api.ipify.org; echo
        $ ## must show a different ip address

Torify your Shell

1. torify the shell, issue

        $ source torsocks on
        $ wget -qO - https://api.ipify.org; echo
        $ ## must show the ip address of tor node

2. To turn on torsocks permanently for all new shells add it to .bashrc

        $ echo ". torsocks on" >> ~/.bashrc

3. If you want to turn torsocks off, try

        $ source torsocks off

Enable the Tor control port

1. Add to your /etc/tor/torrc

         ControlPort 9051

2. Set a Tor Control password

   Convert your password from plain-text to hash

        $ set +o history # unset bash history
        $ tor --hash-password your_password
        $ set -o history # set bash history

3. Add that hash to your /etc/tor/torrc

        HashedControlPassword your_hash

4. Restart tor

       $ sudo systemctl restart tor.service

5. Check the status of port 9051

       $ ss -nlt

Test your tor control port

1. Install gnu-netcat

         $ sudo pacman -S gnu-netcat

2. To test your tor use

       $ echo -e 'PROTOCOLINFO\r\n' | nc 127.0.0.1 9051

3. To request a new circuit (IP address) from Tor, use

       $ set +o history
       $ echo -e 'AUTHENTICATE "my-tor-password"\r\nsignal NEWNYM\r\nQUIT' | nc 127.0.0.1 9051
       $ set -o history

Danke!

515 Authentication failed: Password did not match HashedControlPassword value from configuration
i'm facing bad authentication please help!
I cross checked the hash after entering, I also restarted the tor service after saving the password to torrc still Im facing this
update: now it's showing the error below:

1695761456 ERROR torsocks[25541]: Unable to resolve. Status reply: 4 (in socks5_recv_resolve_ptr_reply() at socks5.c:823)
1695761456 WARNING torsocks[25541]: [connect] Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCPDNS query to a local DNS server. Rejecting it for safety reasons. (in tsocks_connect() at connect.c:191)
Error: Couldn't create connection (err=-5): Operation not permitted 

thanks

no errors encountered but fails to activate tor (ip address not masked)